I'm trying to play a vidio on the MSNBC web site and it stated that I needed Adobe Flash Player. MSNBC provided a link which I clicked on and it took me to an Adobe page from which I downloade Flash Player to my Centos5 desktop.

I use rpm -i example.file.name

However when RPM ran it stated the the package (Flash Player) was already installed. Yet I still can't play the video from MSNBC.

I'm a newbie and I don't understand why Firefox isn't finding or able to use the installed Flash Player.

I tried the following with these results:

[root@centos5 /]# find / -name flash -print
/home/rifkinho/.macromedia/Flash_Player/#SharedObjects/75TYBDSL/l.yimg.com/a/a/1-/flash
[root@centos5 /]#


Any help with resolving this issue would be appreciated.

Thanks.

Open Firefox and enter . It should show you similar like following

Installed Plug-ins

Shockwave Flash

File name: libflashplayer.so
Shockwave Flash 10.0 r22

Btw, I copied my libflashplayer.so manually.

Thanks, but exactly what paths (directories) did you copy what to where?

I do it like this.

I check current installed plugins from 'aboutlugins' at firefox. Then search current installed libnullplugin.so. I then extract libflashplayer.so from tar and copied it to where libnullplugin.so is installed. It is in /opt/firefox/plugins .

Your distro might use different folder.